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Built in the 8th century, as a library and translation institute, Bayt al Hikmah, or House of Wisdom in English, was one of the crowning feature of the Abbasid capital of Baghdad. Baghdad’s initial development can largely be credited to the caliph Harun al Rashid (Aaron the Upright). Under his stewardship, Baghdad began a course that would lead it to reigning supreme as the intellectual and cultural center of world.
A recent study has concluded that religious people are less likely to understand mathematics, biology and physics. And in the Western world there’s a common misconception that all religion is anti-science. The basis for this erroneous belief is the belligerent, often violent, persecution of those advancing the cause of scientific knowledge by Catholic Inquisitions, back in the Middle Ages.
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